Still, the nearly 40 year old feature has existed in some form since 1985 when Windows 1.0 appeared. However, Microsoft has never put it down in writing that Control Panel would disappear.

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Set the Control Panel for the heart of the Sun Opinion We may not know exactly when or how, but we do know that the Windows ...

In its latest Patch Tuesday cumulative update, Microsoft has confirmed an embarassing bug which broke older security patches ...

T he end is nigh for Control Panel as Microsoft says that it plans to deprecate the 39-year-old settings interface.

Since the debut of Windows 8 in 2012, Microsoft has been eager to replace the aged Control Panel with the newer Settings app. The transition so far has been slow and gradual. Based on a couple of ...

Another critical flaw, CVE-2024-38119, stems from a use-after-free remote code execution bug in the Windows Network Address Translation (NAT) code base. An attacker would have to be inside the network ...

This may not be a surprise for many Windows users. Since October 2020, Microsoft has been redirecting users away from the Control Panel, goading them to use the Settings app instead. "The Settings app ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has added five flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) ...

Even though there were rumors about Microsoft implementing similar capabilities in Windows, dynamic wallpapers are currently possible only with the help of a third-party app called WinDynamicDesktop.

Microsoft is fixing more than seventy security and other vulnerabilities in its September Patch Tuesday update. Of particular ...

Indie sensation passes major milestone shortly after 1.0 release LONDON, UK – September 16th, 2024 – Fireshine Games and Pugstorm are thrilled to announce that mining sandbox adventure Core Keeper has ...